Indian Hacker Playing with Pakistani Cyber Space

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">India Hacker Playing with Pakistani Cyber Space and Pakistani hacker watching silently. We have confirm that hackers <span style="color: red;">attack on Pakistani cyber space increase 80% more in month of August</span>. According to Indians IRC channels they are willing to attack more.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7yy0u92EWwBE9YS3gf3St0AxsVJXk9xCg3U7QFWcGLv6DM0cFn1pcQhphz8HFi90cZ8EKOSygPIGUt8xsh58uf-FeCWHczLk89gin7Yn5SIpJ9EN2RtbiPkicwWHG-RWO20ET4m5MZ2il/s1600/pak_india_400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7yy0u92EWwBE9YS3gf3St0AxsVJXk9xCg3U7QFWcGLv6DM0cFn1pcQhphz8HFi90cZ8EKOSygPIGUt8xsh58uf-FeCWHczLk89gin7Yn5SIpJ9EN2RtbiPkicwWHG-RWO20ET4m5MZ2il/s320/pak_india_400.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />In the world of technology, it's not a war of drones and manual army between India and Pakistan but a war between the Cyber Army of both the nations since the eve of Independence that is still continued on Internet. Indian Hackers are united first time ever on Facebook claiming themselves as '<span style="color: red;">United Hackers of India</span>' and are constantly preventing the Pakistani hackers to hack Indian websites. Indian hackers had jumped recently to a void Pakistani hackers to fuel the communal fire in India by defacing Indian websites.<br /><br />On August 13, Indian hacker <span style="color: red;">Coded32 appears with an idea to retaliate against Pakistani hackers</span> - who were busy defacing Indian websites. Coded32 gathered all strong Indian hackers labeled as greyhats and whitehats.<br /><br />Major hacker teams named <span style="color: red;">Team OpenFire, Indian Cyber Force, IndiaShell, Indian Cyber Pirates </span>many other teams got united and everyone attacked Pakistan telecom departments, educational centers, Railway centers and vowed to put down the NIC (National Informatics Center), PKNIC, of Pakistan on same day.<br /><br />The United Indian hackers on their page uploads as, "We are Indian Hackers, it was not supposed to happen all the sudden this way, but hey who knew? We belong to India. We are one blood! We have one cause. STOP breaching Indian servers, you we bet, the whole Pakistan, Bangladesh, or whosoever breaches Indian Security will have to pay a big time that will be permanent, and irreversible."<br /><br />Hackers named as coded32, 64, Xhunthacker, and code injector revealed HT: "At this, Pakistani hackers forces discussed among themselves and called for a peace deal between India-Pakistan and the cyber war on both the sides got over on 16th August.<br /><br />But that was not the only end, Bangladesh, provoked up, and Indian hackers already knew most of the data were supplied by Pakistan Internally supporting them, to this current date Indian hackers are fighting with Bangladesh as cold war, attacking each other but with no direct terms and with negotiation."<br /><br />One more new Group appear name as <span style="color: red;">H2O</span>, They hacked some Pakistani facebook pages contain huge fan clubs, They also leak some data about about admins of those pages.<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Today Offical Shahi Afridi sites was also hacked</span> by Indian Hacker <a bb8e2c9100587="true" href="http://www.shahidafridi.com.pk//" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>www.shahidafridi.com.pk/</a> . This was also a huge security flaw.<br /><br />In the End we try to find out the right number of hacked sites and came to result that yeah it is true that india hacked pakistani sites and it was about to 1,000 to 1500 and those server was already hacked by Indian hackers and only few mirror are made in zone-h. And the <span style="color: red;">real reason of this artical is to increase the awareness of Security in Pakistani Cyber Space</span>.<br /><br /></div><a class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" href="https://twitter.com/thehackersmedia">Follow @thehackersmedia</a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script></div>

Indian Hacker Playing with Pakistani Cyber Space

India Hacker Playing with Pakistani Cyber Space and Pakistani hacker watching silently. We have confirm that hackers attack on Pakistani cyber space increase 80% more in month of August. According to …

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70+ Sites Hacked And Defaced By Sizzling Soul

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Pakistani hacker Name as Sizzling Soul 70+ Sites Hacked And Defaced. Most of the hacked domain belong to <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14.545454025268555px;">South Africa. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, 'Century gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This hack also point of lot of question for security experts. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, 'Century gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">These kind of attacks are clearly showing how much awareness about security is need in cyber world.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, 'Century gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, 'Century gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;">The list of impacted sites and mirrors was published on <a href="http://www.paste.to/MTAwMTc2Mw==" target="_blank">Pastebin</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, 'Century gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;"> , at press time, all of them still weren’t restored.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFK_8Ij0CE0F1BeIK1CLKmA6Anet1MN_6Ey2ijtHSJTyYm3NE293AzvszRlRFFBldtx6KNLTcgzi8Ki4TDF4C-5bnI0j6Wk8bJg-CuRCTJKELOwbXSMxuortt5BukAKSxNIriZ1RrqClad/s1600/sizzleing.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFK_8Ij0CE0F1BeIK1CLKmA6Anet1MN_6Ey2ijtHSJTyYm3NE293AzvszRlRFFBldtx6KNLTcgzi8Ki4TDF4C-5bnI0j6Wk8bJg-CuRCTJKELOwbXSMxuortt5BukAKSxNIriZ1RrqClad/s320/sizzleing.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>Deface Page Says:</b><br />"<span style="color: red;">100 %</span><br /><span style="color: red;">Attempting Bypass...</span><br /><span style="color: red;">Code broken!</span><br /><span style="color: red;">=======================</span><br /><span style="color: red;">A message for Indians(indishell,ICH.ICP),Americans & All Others: </span><br /><span style="color: red;"> STOP messing with Pakistan, and the power! The lions are sleeping, they </span><br /><span style="color: red;">arent dead yet!</span><br /><span style="color: red;">FREE Kashmir, Kashmiris dont want violence, we all want peace! <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><br /><span style="color: red;">Gandhi once said: ''Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life'' </span><br /><span style="color: red;">Read your own law;</span><br /><span style="color: red;">Indian Penal Code(Act No. 45 of 1860) CHAPTER-II SEC 18:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>'India'- “India” means the territory of India excluding the State of Jammu and Kashmir.</span><br /><span style="color: red;">=======================</span><br /><span style="color: red;">Do NOT mess with the Paki Lions or we will turn your life into LIVING HELL!</span><br /><span style="color: red;">    No hate for anyone</span><br /><span style="color: red;">    We want a world, full of PEACE, not WAR! We are a peacefull religion (Islam), a peacefull country (Pakistan) and peacefull humans</span><br /><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">###########################################</span><br /><span style="color: red;">  Theres always a silence before the storm, and youre enjoying the silence....   </span><br /><span style="color: red;"> ###########################################</span><br /><span style="color: red;"> #    The Land I Belong To, The Land I Will Die For, The Land That Defines My Identity. I will LIVE and I will DIE for PAKISTAN</span><br /><span style="color: red;">    If You Want Some Then Come And Get Some...</span>"<br /><br /></div><a class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" href="https://twitter.com/thehackersmedia">Follow @thehackersmedia</a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script></div>

70+ Sites Hacked And Defaced By Sizzling Soul

Pakistani hacker Name as Sizzling Soul 70+ Sites Hacked And Defaced. Most of the hacked domain belong to South Africa. This hack also point of lot of question for security experts. These kind of attac…

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NSA top spy going to Defcon 2012

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">General Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency (NSA), will speak at the Defcon conference, the Pentagon affirmed.<br />General Keith B. Alexander is also the current Commander, United States Cyber Command.<br />Defcon for those of you who don’t know is a community of “hackers.”<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuRqdMRiiJ3_jSY7jeUbD3WpnjBCidnLUC5IlF3rj5Ps28-TDvyHjrUJ8poLXjomi8lidH6pzKdSU4RwIuqItvZbpD8tJMMJRM6v1LbQTl6bb1Sxsd_kpV8m1CV2YFk1FVMUvXPAOFNXgO/s1600/Defconwall1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuRqdMRiiJ3_jSY7jeUbD3WpnjBCidnLUC5IlF3rj5Ps28-TDvyHjrUJ8poLXjomi8lidH6pzKdSU4RwIuqItvZbpD8tJMMJRM6v1LbQTl6bb1Sxsd_kpV8m1CV2YFk1FVMUvXPAOFNXgO/s320/Defconwall1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Not to be confused with “crackers”.<br />Hackers, are a whole sub culture within American society.<br />They come to the conference to network, socialize and compete in hacking contests. They represent diverse demographics…<br />“Defcon is a self evolving group, constantly changing.”, said one hacker, who wished not to be identified<br />General Alexander may also be doing some intelligence gathering?<br />After all he spend most of his adult life in Army intelligence.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yeNEwCjUtQQ?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><br />So as to be balanced, you should probably also watch a excellent scene in the movie Good Will Hunting before you decide to join NSA (see video: Why shouldn’t I work at the NSA (see video:)<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UrOZllbNarw?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><br /><br />According to Defcon employees “We’re going to show him the conference. If he wants to wander around…”<br />“It should be really cool”, said Jeff Moss of Defcon.<br />Speaking in reference to the speech Moss said:<br />“Don’t you think it’s important to hear what the most senior person at the NSA has to say? I’m interested in hearing what he has to say.”<br />He may be right. I don’t know?<br />Its no secret that Defcon is promoting this speaker at the conference.<br />Despite what you may think there are some serious discussions go on at Defcon conferences.<br />The topics range ever year from everything from computer intrusion, viruses to protecting your credit card information from being scanned by people walking down the street.<br /><br />Reference: <a href="http://www.blacknewbieteam.org/2012/08/25/nsa-top-spy-going-to-defcon-2012/#" target="_blank">Link1</a><br /><br /></div><a class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" href="https://twitter.com/thehackersmedia">Follow @thehackersmedia</a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script></div>

NSA top spy going to Defcon 2012

General Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency (NSA), will speak at the Defcon conference, the Pentagon affirmed.General Keith B. Alexander is also the current Commander, United Sta…

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Becoming Hackers Aren’t Tougher, You Just Have All The Right Tool

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">These days, hacking seems so common. It’s like a week won’t pass without hearing news about another site being hacked or passwords being leaked. So the situation begs the<br /><div class="text_exposed_show">questions, “Are passwords getting weaker or are hackers getting tougher?”<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYVKWQGYiAvsanD1gCofKTovnz3OlrnOZdP5L-Dqn3UGXiRmbvn417z_3DVa37jJG3ZtUGbWc-JptOqK6DhyphenhyphenKBibD_1bNNsffj0MdA1Qtrv8eTB9rqxsk8K3A6TNKBWziBQmnbVlH_6gvc/s1600/bt5-g0.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYVKWQGYiAvsanD1gCofKTovnz3OlrnOZdP5L-Dqn3UGXiRmbvn417z_3DVa37jJG3ZtUGbWc-JptOqK6DhyphenhyphenKBibD_1bNNsffj0MdA1Qtrv8eTB9rqxsk8K3A6TNKBWziBQmnbVlH_6gvc/s320/bt5-g0.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />To be vigilant in choosing and keeping passwords secured. There are a lot of techniques in doing this like periodically changing your passwords, not telling everyone what your password is, using capital letters interchangeably with characters, numbers, etc. But all these efforts will be for naught if the site doesn’t salt your passwords. Salting passwords means they’re encrypting them so that it can’t be easily acquired. Most sites these days encrypt their users’ passwords but there are still some sites who do without salting. So how come passwords still get hacked if they’re encrypted? The answer is simple: hacking is now made easy.<br /><br />It’s just that hackers these days have more hacking tools to aide them in their mission. Before, when hacking wasn’t that popular and computers aren’t that fast, hackers used a small list of passwords to guess user passwords. But as the time changed, the list grew. You’d think that hackers would have a tougher time cracking passwords since there’s now a bigger list to go through but you must not forget that computers these days are faster and can churn millions of data at the blink of an eye. Plus the fact that there are a lot of cracking software available these days, acquiring passwords may just be a walk in the park some.<br /><br />There are two things you need to remember if you want to acquire passwords. First, if you do manage to get passwords of a certain site, there’s a huge possibility that it won’t be of any use to you since it’s hashed. Remember, sites encrypt passwords. So if a user uses the word “password” the hacker won’t see “password” but a code like “dzportsjd342nse9339f93qnnfgk134nsk4g” (not actual code) so he then needs to figure out what the code means before the password can be of any use to him. This is the reason why security companies often remind consumers to use an alphanumeric password, or inject some characters into them and avoid using obvious ones like your name and birthday, so hackers won’t easily access your account. Another thing to remember is to use different passwords for every site so in case one of your accounts gets compromised, your other accounts will still be secured.<br /><br />The point is, users aren’t to blame if their accounts get hacked, it also doesn’t mean that the security measures of the service you are using is not commendable, hackers just have all the tools they need to do the task. So don’t beat yourself up. Still, it wouldn’t hurt if you make your passwords tougher.<br /><br /></div></div><a class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" href="https://twitter.com/thehackersmedia">Follow @thehackersmedia</a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script></div>

Becoming Hackers Aren’t Tougher, You Just Have All The Right Tool

These days, hacking seems so common. It’s like a week won’t pass without hearing news about another site being hacked or passwords being leaked. So the situation begs thequestions, “Are passwords g…

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US general: We hacked the enemy in Afghanistan

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The U.S. military has been launching cyber attacks against its opponents in Afghanistan, a senior officer said last week, making an unusually explicit acknowledgment of the oft-hidden world o<br /><div class="text_exposed_show">f electronic warfare.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVaqoSeIRUQ6SJCLjdQlgBlSbyY5QOpstM0nZ7GB5tIKOytsOSev5hN3QYxIdg1LcPvE5BO5zNAhkmEMM6T0f50kRnWcGhhbbP4erGz-sXsYio7qBazeQv2QfTT1tfsKg_87rtKsDEg1Mf/s1600/atc1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVaqoSeIRUQ6SJCLjdQlgBlSbyY5QOpstM0nZ7GB5tIKOytsOSev5hN3QYxIdg1LcPvE5BO5zNAhkmEMM6T0f50kRnWcGhhbbP4erGz-sXsYio7qBazeQv2QfTT1tfsKg_87rtKsDEg1Mf/s400/atc1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Marine Lt. Gen. Richard P. Mills' comments came at a conference in Baltimore during which he explained how U.S. commanders considered cyber weapons an important part of their arsenal.<br /><br />"I can tell you that as a commander in Afghanistan in the year 2010, I was able to use my cyber operations against my adversary with great impact," Mills said. "I was able to get inside his nets, infect his command-and-control, and in fact defend myself against his almost constant incursions to get inside my wire, to affect my operations."</div><div class="text_exposed_show"><br /></div></div><a class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" href="https://twitter.com/thehackersmedia">Follow @thehackersmedia</a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script></div>

US general: We hacked the enemy in Afghanistan

The U.S. military has been launching cyber attacks against its opponents in Afghanistan, a senior officer said last week, making an unusually explicit acknowledgment of the oft-hidden world of elect…

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357 arrested in massive cybercrime sting in Philippines

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">MANILA, Philippines—More than 300 foreigners, suspected members of a cybercrime and human trafficking syndicate, were arrested in simultaneous raids in Quezon City, Marikina City, and<br /><div class="text_exposed_show">Cainta and Antipolo City in Rizal province on Thursday.<br /><br />The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) said among those arrested were the two suspected financiers of a group involved in credit card fraud and human smuggling in Taiwan and China.</div><div class="text_exposed_show"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY-bz-v6Zpz-GvGAwtiocn0_UrQpXCYVNoiRHbv3Y4hs20CwAy1HKFPzYfUJenctH5XBkTcp46Mza2xfRnevHfnG3ffy1z8qBs6HjU6S5hBGd8zoWyuncpUjTkefU0vR4nL-DQdZKaihbT/s1600/crime-scene-law-enforcement.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY-bz-v6Zpz-GvGAwtiocn0_UrQpXCYVNoiRHbv3Y4hs20CwAy1HKFPzYfUJenctH5XBkTcp46Mza2xfRnevHfnG3ffy1z8qBs6HjU6S5hBGd8zoWyuncpUjTkefU0vR4nL-DQdZKaihbT/s400/crime-scene-law-enforcement.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="text_exposed_show"><br />“[This is] the biggest and most resolute operation carried out by law enforcement units in the history of anticyber crime drive [in the Philippines],” Director Samuel Pagdilao Jr., CIDG chief, said in a statement.<br /><br />“The raids … demonstrate the strong will of the authorities to [run after] these foreigners who have made the country their base of criminal operations,” he added.<br /><br />Pagdilao said a total of 357 Chinese and Taiwanese were taken into custody during the raids conducted by the CIDG, the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) and the Naval Intelligence and Security Force. <br /><br />At about 6:30 a.m., he said the operatives headed by Senior Superintendent Ranier Idio, PAOCC deputy chief, simultaneously raided 20 houses in Metro Manila and Rizal province.<br /><br />Arrested during the operations, which were covered by search warrants issued by Manila Regional Trial Court Judge Marino de la Cruz Jr., were Chinese-Filipino Maria Luisa Tan and Jonson Tan Co, said to be the financiers of the group, Pagdilao said.<br /><br />The raiding team also confiscated various telecommunications gadgets and equipment which the syndicate purportedly used in their illegal activities.<br /><br />Chief Supt. Reginald Villasanta, PAOCC executive director, said the suspects, who were charged with violation of the Access Devices Regulation Act of 1998, were taken to the Police National Training Institute in Camp Vicente Lim in Calamba City, Laguna province.<br /><br />Because of the sheer number of those arrested, Villasanta said the police training school’s gym had to be turned into a makeshift detention facility.<br /><br />“This is undoubtedly one of the largest antifraud stings in the Philippines in recent years,” Villasanta said.<br /><br />“Using the Internet, members of the syndicate [would] claim to represent [the Chinese] police, prosecutor’s office, courts, insurance companies, banks and other financial institutions when they call their victims,” he said.<br /><br />Villasanta said the suspects would tell their unsuspecting victims that their personal bank accounts were under investigation for supposedly being used in money laundering and terrorist activities.<br /><br />After threatening them, he said the syndicate would order their victims to deposit their money in a “safe account that the syndicate would provide.”<br /><br />According to the CIDG’s deputy director for operations, Senior Supt. Keith Singian, the group’s modus operandi “is a classic example of the operations of criminal syndicate in China, only this time, the suspects who are foreigners have used the Philippines as base of operations.”<br /><br />At least P20M a day<br /><br />“Many of the victims agreed [to transfer their money] out of fear and anxiety,” Villasanta said. “The syndicate made at least P20 million a day through this kind of modus [operandi].”<br /><br />He said the Chinese police discovered that the syndicate had transferred to the Philippines when they traced the Internet Protocol address that the suspects had used to contact their victims.<br /><br />Villasanta said the group had been victimizing residents of Taiwan and mainland China since 2007.<br /><br />Credit card fraud<br /><br />“An initial investigation revealed that the arrested suspects have links with an international fraud syndicate that operates in the Philippines and abroad,” Villasanta said.<br /><br />“They are involved in credit card fraud, large-scale human trafficking and international long-distance call bypass operations,” he said.<br /><br />Senior Supt. Keith Singian, CIDG operations chief, said the modus operandi of the arrested foreigners was similar to the activities of 37 Chinese nationals who were arrested in May by the CIDG for hacking international gateway facilities and engaging in financial fraud. <br /><br />“Following the crackdown on the group by the Chinese authorities in 2010, [the syndicate] moved their operations outside China and continued … victimizing Chinese nationals through the Internet,” Singian said.<br /><br />In Marikina City, Senior Supt. Gabriel Lopez, chief of police, told the Inquirer that 18 males and four females were arrested in a house on Moscow Street in Loyola Grand Villas.<br /><br />Like a call center<br /><br />The house, he said, was owned by a Filipino, but he refused to reveal his identity. The foreigners, Lopez said, were paying monthly rent to the owner.<br /><br />Lopez said the house was made to look like a call center, with numerous phone lines and telephones inside. “You know how legal call centers are. This one is obviously not legal since they use the phone lines of other people,” he said.<br /><br />In Antipolo City, Supt. Rodino Elfa, chief of police, said the CIDG and the local police raided two houses in Vermont Park, Barangay Mayamot. Twenty-five individuals were arrested.</div><div class="text_exposed_show"><br /></div></div><a class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" href="https://twitter.com/thehackersmedia">Follow @thehackersmedia</a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script></div>

357 arrested in massive cybercrime sting in Philippines

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